Chronic pain is a common public health problem that has a detrimental impact on patient
health, quality of life (QoL), and function, and poses a substantial socioeconomic burden …

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Objectives The current opioid addiction crisis highlights two chronic health conditions which
have traditionally received relatively little emphasis in nursing curricula: addiction and …

Importance Opioid dosage tapering has emerged as a strategy to reduce harms associated
with long-term opioid therapy; however, evidence supporting this approach is limited …

Background Despite known risks of using chronic opioid therapy (COT) for pain, the risks of
discontinuation of COT are largely uncharacterized. Objective To evaluate mortality …

Methods We followed the process of developing class-specific medication deprescribing
guidelines, 17 and the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE) II …

Importance Opioid-prescribing policies and guidelines aimed at reducing inappropriate
opioid prescribing may lead physicians to stop prescribing opioids. Patients may thus …

Objective To assess the association between long term prescription opioid treatment
medically dispensed for non-cancer pain and the initiation of injection drug use (IDU) among …

Importance A 2016 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention prescribing guideline
cautioned against higher-dose long-term opioid therapy and recommended tapering daily …

Background: For many cancer survivors post-cure, chronic pain is a devastating
complication of cancer treatment. The prevalence of chronic pain among cancer survivors is …